‘Puän’ is the friend, and ‘Peng’ the loved one. Names sometimes speak truths that it would have been better to ignore forever. For Puän was thought to be the loved one, and Peng the friend. At the first sign of doubt, the two sisters, now rivals, violently vie for the love of Loh, their childhood friend, and end up tearing each other apart.
Cherd Songsri subtly blends the flamboyant drama of passions with those of a society in the throes of change, ready to abandon its traditions for the modernism that has just arrived from Europe, and seems to suggest that the outcome of one is as tragic as that of the other. Throughout the film, the perfect mastery of rhythm and the beauty of the image combine with an exacerbated nostalgia for traditional Thailand to give this tragic love story the perfection of a great classic.
